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On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 06 April 2010 05:13:02 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> Just a question: |
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> Why do we even need to care about ChangeLog files? Can't we just use the git |
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> commit message to generate logs? E.g run a script on server side which will |
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> read the whole git shortlog and generate a changelog every $timeframe? |
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You seem to have missed the gist of the situation. I'm quoting it here |
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again to highlight it: |
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* It makes zero sense to manually manage ChangeLogs in git[1] |
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[snip] |
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* Proposed is to generate ChangeLogs from git commits on the rsync |
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server side when metadata generation is done |
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- Scripts to do this already exist[1] |
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[snip] |
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1. http://live.gnome.org/Git/ChangeLog |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |